I'm founder and CTO of Lijit, a very cool startup in Boulder based on Outfoxed, my master's thesis about online trust. I studied Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. My business partner Todd Vernon (former CTO of Raindance Communications) and I incorporated the company in June and closed an angel round of funding in August.

Most recently I worked at RootMarkets in New York. At that time I also developed the AttentionTrust.org Attention Recorder.

I've been working on the web in some form or another since 1996 when I created the first browser-based massively multiplayer games, UltraCorps and Evernight.

I've been working with computers in some form or another since 1981 when my school got some Atari 800's. Because my Dad was a teacher, I didn't have to go through the normal certification course to use them: I just started playing around. By Halloween I was hooked, as you can see in the photo.

And as the blog title might imply, I love traveling. Check out some of my wanderings of 2001 or 2003 or my time in Germany.

Offical bio:

Stan James is the founder and CTO of Lijit Networks, Inc., based in Boulder, Colorado. (www.lijit.com) Lijit's Personal Network Search is the first vertical search technology centered on people, their content and their trusted network. It is is based on his masters thesis about online trust. (www.getoutfoxed.com) Before graduate school, Stan worked for VR-1 Entertainment where he led the design and development of multiplayer browser-based games for Microsoft, AOL, Deutsche-Telekom, and Hasbro. Stan has a masters degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrück, and bachelor degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science from the University of Colorado.